Book Review: Queers Dig Time Lords

Now, when I get a book to review, I always make an effort to read it in its entirety before composing my review. This is because a) I’m thankfully a fast reader, and b) I feel that if I don’t read the entire book, I can’t really make a fair judgment on the book. So I read these in as close to one sitting as I possibly can. Maybe this habit stems from acting school, where my professors insisted we read the entire play from which we took our scenes and monologues. But I digress.

Queers Dig Time Lords is not the kind of book you want to read like this. It’s a collection of essays by various and sundry authors, spanning topics from how Doctor Who is gay-friendly, to how its fan-base is gay-friendly, to memoir-like musing on how the show helped the author through coming out, through queer character-analysis (especially a repeated celebration of Jack Harkness) and comparisons of the geek closet to the homosexual closet. But if you sit down with this book and read all the essays one after the other, it does start to get too repetitive for maximum enjoyment.

But that’s okay–this is the kind of book to come back to in short bursts time and time again, for scholarly reference, warm and fuzzy memoir enjoyment, and geek celebration. It’s a stellar collection, and anyone who’s interested in social studies, sexuality/gender studies, or just loves Doctor Who will welcome this book on their school or geek-themed book shelf.